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SalukiNC · Jul 22, 2011

Had some of Odell's Hiveranno last night on tap, delicious. Semi-sour, citrusy hop, ahhhhh nom nom nom

http://odellbrewing.com/beers/single-serve-landing/hiveranno

kleeda · Jul 23, 2011

Stone's Arrogant Bastard is my current favorite. Drink a Steel Reserve 24 oz. as an igniter and then go with the Arrogant Bastard to savor and you'll be having a good night. And a good night's sleep.

Football_Bat · Jul 28, 2011

I'll see your Steel Reserve and raise you Dog Bite. Two of those will be the cheapest buzz you'll ever get.

funky_mountain · Jul 28, 2011

This summer's I've really enjoyed Anderson Valley's Summer Solstice Cerveza Crema. And, as I have for every spring and summer since the early 1990s, Bell's Oberon Ale, known as Solsun way back then.

Bruce Leroy · Jul 28, 2011

kleeda said:

Stone's Arrogant Bastard is my current favorite. Drink a Steel Reserve 24 oz. as an igniter and then go with the Arrogant Bastard to savor and you'll be having a good night. And a good night's sleep.
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Arrogant Bastard is always a go-to, as are Two Hearted and Crooked Tree from Dark Horse. Lucky Basartd was even better than Arrogant Bastard but was only out on a limited basis where I'm at.

YankeeFan · Oct 2, 2011

Great American Beer Festival was this weekend.

List of award winners:

http://www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com/the-competition/winners/

Chicago well represented:

Chicago breweries made an excellent showing at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver this weekend, scooping up five medals across a range of categories. The annual festival, which is put on by the Brewers Association, offers samples of 2,200 beers from more than 450 breweries across the country (remind us to attend next year). Besides getting to sample an array of brews, the festival gives gold, silver, and bronze medals in each of 75 categories, which are divided by types of beer.

Showing for Chicago were Goose Island Beer Company, 5 Rabbit Cerveceria, Hamburger Mary’s, Haymarket Pub and Brewery, Metropolitan Brewing, Piece Brewery, and Revolution Brewing.

5 Rabbit Cerveceria placed first in the Fruit Wheat Beer category, taking the gold for its 5 Lizard (we just had this a couple weeks ago and loved the refreshing passion fruit flavor). Haymarket Pub and Brewery took the gold in the American-Belgo-Style Ale category for its Angry Birds beer. Piece Brewery took the bronze medal in the German-Style Wheat Ale category for its Dark-n-Curvy. Goose Island took bronze in the French- and Belgian-Style Saison category for its Sofie beer, as well as a bronze in the Extra Special Bitter category for its Harvest Ale.

Indianapolis' Sun King Brewing Co. took home eight medals. Check out the full list of winners here.

http://chicagoist.com/2011/10/02/chicago_breweries_win_five_medals_a.php
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Fly · Oct 2, 2011

YankeeFan said:

Great American Beer Festival was this weekend.

List of award winners:

http://www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com/the-competition/winners/

Chicago well represented:

Chicago breweries made an excellent showing at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver this weekend, scooping up five medals across a range of categories. The annual festival, which is put on by the Brewers Association, offers samples of 2,200 beers from more than 450 breweries across the country (remind us to attend next year). Besides getting to sample an array of brews, the festival gives gold, silver, and bronze medals in each of 75 categories, which are divided by types of beer.

Showing for Chicago were Goose Island Beer Company, 5 Rabbit Cerveceria, Hamburger Mary’s, Haymarket Pub and Brewery, Metropolitan Brewing, Piece Brewery, and Revolution Brewing.

5 Rabbit Cerveceria placed first in the Fruit Wheat Beer category, taking the gold for its 5 Lizard (we just had this a couple weeks ago and loved the refreshing passion fruit flavor). Haymarket Pub and Brewery took the gold in the American-Belgo-Style Ale category for its Angry Birds beer. Piece Brewery took the bronze medal in the German-Style Wheat Ale category for its Dark-n-Curvy. Goose Island took bronze in the French- and Belgian-Style Saison category for its Sofie beer, as well as a bronze in the Extra Special Bitter category for its Harvest Ale.

Indianapolis' Sun King Brewing Co. took home eight medals. Check out the full list of winners here.

http://chicagoist.com/2011/10/02/chicago_breweries_win_five_medals_a.php
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Stoked to hear my buddy Aaron from Grimm Brothers in Loveland, CO won a gold for his German Alt Little Red Cap. Great guy who makes outstanding beers.

Another one I was happy to see was Fort Collins, CO's Funkwerks taking home a silver for their Saison. Spent a couple hours at their taproom when I was in Colorado mid-August. Good people making great beers.

mjp1542 · Oct 3, 2011

Founders' Canadian Breakfast Stout is being released in stores today (750 ml bottles) for the first time. My go-to places around here aren't likely to have it, which is thoroughly disappointing. I'm going to head out now and do a drive-by, but even if they did have it, I'm sure they're sold out.

cougargirl · Oct 8, 2011

New Belgium Fat Tire is *finally* available in the Baltimore-Washington area! Just got a 12-pack of 22oz. bottles for my birthday!

Mystery Meat II · Oct 15, 2011

mjp1542 said:

Founders' Canadian Breakfast Stout is being released in stores today (750 ml bottles) for the first time. My go-to places around here aren't likely to have it, which is thoroughly disappointing. I'm going to head out now and do a drive-by, but even if they did have it, I'm sure they're sold out.
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My go-to beer store does not have it yet but tell me it'll be sooner rather than later. It's the No. 3 beer in the Beer Advocate rankings and it sounds fucking glorious. I will go deep in debt to buy as much of this as I can.

I gave Fat Tire another chance now that it's as common as PBR around here and ... eh. It's not a bad beer, but I don't get the hype and never will. I also tried Kick, which is their pumpkin cranberry ale. Too sour for these lips and the pumpkin is completely overwhelmed. Highly disappointed.

YankeeFan · Dec 15, 2014

Personally, not a huge fan of sour beers, but I approve of any article the Times want to print on craft beers:

NOT so long ago I visited an American craft brewery whose beers I greatly admired. The brewery is best known for its excellent versions of traditional English styles: pale ale and porter, stout and India pale ale. But did the brewers want to talk about these beers? No way.

They led me away from the brew tanks (far away, in fact) to a separate building in which rows of old oak barrels filled with beer had been stacked to age. Unlike the vast majority of beers, which are fermented with yeasts selected by brewers to produce a set of desirable characteristics, these brews were fermented with brettanomyces, a type of yeast that can be unpredictable but is best known as a scourge of wines because of the funky, sweaty, unwanted flavors it can produce.

In beer, though, brettanomyces contributes to the profoundly tart, powerfully pungent flavors prized in styles like Belgian lambics. In these barrels at the American brewery, which are kept isolated from the mainstream beers to prevent renegade brettanomyces from causing trouble where it wasn’t intended, the brewers were almost gleefully nursing their experiments with sour beer.

Sour beer: It sounds like something worth spilling out, and not crying over. In fact, sour beer has enthralled many American craft brewers, who, like the one I visited, are turning out fascinating brews that will challenge many people’s expectations of what a beer can be.

Some of these brews are experimental, available only at the breweries. Others are made in limited quantities, often sold in 750-milliliter bottles. But over the next year, as American craft breweries bottle the sour beers now resting in barrels, more will begin showing up in bars and stores.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/dining/sour-beers-review.html?ref=dining&pagewanted=all
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Webster · Nov 23, 2011

That sounds not very fun to drink.

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